Toilet Cleaning: Handle & Lid

When cleaning toilets, make sure to clean the handle and lid to disinfect commonly touched surfaces. Clean the toilet lid and handle with tips from a nanny in this free video on toilet cleaning. View Video Transcript

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Lucy Doezie

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Okay, so, we're just going to rinse out your cloth 'cause you want to re-disinfect your cloth. Everytime you touch the toilet, you're going to have germs and bacteria on this cloth. So you want to keep bringing it back into the water to disinfect it again. Okay. So, let's, let's just pretend that we've done this three times. I generally will go over any one area two or three times. So we've done that and again, don't forget the handle here because obviously, if you go to the bathroom, the first thing you touch is the handle. So the handle has got a lot of the bacteria sitting right there. So make sure you have, do a good job of cleaning that handle off. Okay? Next we are going to just going go straight on to the toilet's lid. Make sure you get that good because again after you've done with the bathroom, with the toilet, you put the lid down, generally speaking. Some people, don't. But again, you haven't moist your hands yet, so you want to make sure that you're getting those areas where the hands are going after you've used the bathroom. So make sure you do a really good job of cleaning the lid. Okay?